Schilmoeller, Elizabeth 1919-2003

SCHILMOELLER, SUDTELGTE, STAAB

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 2/28/2009 at 19:04:51

REMSEN, Iowa -- Elizabeth Schilmoeller, 83, of Remsen died Monday, July 14, 2003, at Orange City Municipal Hospital in Orange City, Iowa.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Remsen, with the Rev. Timothy Johnson officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Wednesday, with a Christian Mothers and Catholic Daughters of American rosary at 3 p.m. and a vigil prayer service at 7:30 p.m., at Fisch Funeral Home in Remsen.

Elizabeth was born Dec. 20, 1919, in rural Remsen, the daughter of Joseph and Regina (Sudtelgte) Staab. She was raised in the Remsen area and received her education at St. Mary's Catholic School, graduating in 1937. She then did domestic work in Chicago for several years.

On Jan. 23, 1940, she married Emil Schilmoeller in Remsen. They made their home near Granville, Iowa, where they farmed for four years. They then moved to a farm north of Remsen, where they farmed until retiring on the farm in 1979. In December 1982, they moved into Remsen.

She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Christian Mothers, Catholic Daughters of America, the Missionary Association of Catholic Women and Happy Siesta Health Care Center Auxiliary.

Survivors include her husband, Emil of Remsen; two daughters and their husbands, Betty Jean and Mike Kaschmitter of Spencer, Iowa, and Charlene and Don Bunch of Lenore, Idaho; four sons and their wives, Ronald and Evelyn of Remsen, Gary and Kathy of Orono, Maine, Leon and Jan of Cottage Grove, Minn., and Bob and Ruth of Burnsville, Minn.; 23 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; two brothers and their wives, Ervin and Fern Staab and Roman and Maxine Staab, all of Remsen; three sisters, Helen Wiederholt of Sioux City, Doris Reilly of Le Mars, Iowa, and Rita Mary and her husband, Edward Schaaf of Eugene, Ore.; and a sister-in-law, Alvina Augustine of Remsen.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Pallbearers will be her grandchildren.

~Source:The Sioux City Journal, July 15, 2003
~Part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection